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Unexplained connection

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

27 November 2021

9:00 AM

Two Revolutions and the Constitution - How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution James D.R. Philips

Hamilton Books, pp.145, $27.50

Why would an Australian lawyer and historian write a book explaining how the English and American Revolutions produced the American Constitution? The short answer is to do something no other current author has done; to explain what Geoffrey Robertson QC has described as the unexplained connection between the early English Republicans of the seventeenth century and their common law concepts and the foundation of the US Constitution.

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